INDEX. 



949 



Phosphate industry of Canada, the, bv 



R. C. Adams, 853. 

 Photographic registration, an induction 



inclinometer adapted for, C. Carpmael 



on, 635. 

 ♦Photographing the solar spectrum, re- 

 cent progress in, Prof. H. A. Rowland 



on, 635. 

 Physical constants of solutions, Profs. W. 



L. Goodwin and D. H. Marshall on 



the, 679. 

 Physical proportions for life insurance 



and recruiting, a scale of, by C. Roberts, 



282. 

 Physical Section, the Mathematical and, 

 Address by Prof. Sir Wm, Thomson to, 

 613. 

 •Physiology of therapeutics of the chloral 

 hydrate and anaesthetics generally, Dr. 

 W. Alexander on the, 785. 

 *Phytopti, a contribution to our know- 

 ledge of the, by Prof. P. McMurrick, 

 782. 

 *Pidgeon (D.) on agricultural imple- 

 ments, 896. 

 Pitt- Rivers (Gen.) on the facial charac- 

 teristics of the races and principal 

 crosses in the British Isles, 294. 

 Plant (J.) on the circulation of under- 

 ground waters, 96 ; on the erratic 

 blocks of England, Wales, and Ireland, 

 219. 

 Poole (H. S.), note on the internal tem- 

 perature of the earth at Westville, 

 Nova Scotia, 614. 

 * Population, immigration, and pauperism 

 in the dominion of Canada, by J. 

 Lowe, 866. 

 *Portrush electric railway, the, by Dr. A. 



Traill, 893. 

 Post office savings bank system of 



Canada, J. C. Stewart on the, 834. 

 Powell (Major J. W.)on the classification 

 of North American languages, 899 ; 

 marriage laws of the North American 

 tribes, 911. 

 Precious stones and metals in India, the 

 mode of occurrence of, V. Ball on, 731. 

 Pre-Cambrian rocks of Canada, first im- 

 pressions of some, by Prof. J. F. Blake, 

 728. 

 Precious stones and metals in India, the 

 mode of occurrence of, V. Ball on, 731. 

 Preece (W. H.) on the best means for 

 facilitating the adoption of the metric 

 system of weights and measures in 

 Great Britain, 27 ; on standards for use 

 in electrical measurements, 29 ; on the 

 determination of a gauge for the 

 manufacture of various small screws, 

 287 ; on the law regulating the con- 

 nection between current and intensity 

 of incandescence of carbon filaments 

 in glow lamps, 654 ; * the Watt and 



horse-power, 893 ; * secondary bat- 

 teries, ib. ; * domestic electric light. 



ing, ib. 

 Prehistoric intercourse between east and 



west, facts suggestive of, by Miss A. 



W. Buckland, 916. 

 ♦Pressure at a point inside a vortex-ring 



of uniform vorticity, Trof .W. M. Hicks 



on the, 649. 

 Frestwich (Prof. J.) on the circulation of 



underground waters, 96 ; on the erratic 



blocks of England, Wales, and Ireland, 



219 ; on the erosion of the sea-coasts 



of England and Wales, 238. 

 Prospective prices in Europe, America, 



and Asia, by Hyde Clarke, 868. 

 *Proteids of serum, W. B. Halliburton 



and Prof. E. A. Sehiifer on the, 785. 

 Pumping machinery, by E. D. Leavitt, 



jun., 889. 

 Putnam (F. W.), notice of exploration of 



a group of mounds in Ohio, 899. 

 Pye-Smith (Dr.) on the influence of 



bodily exercise on the elimination of 



nitrogen, 265. 



Quebec, the apatite deposits of the pro- 

 vince of, by G. C. Brown, 716. 



♦Radiation, total, at high temperatures, 



the law of, Prof. J. Dewar on, 623. 

 Ramsay (Prof. W.) on molecular volumes, 



676. 

 and Dr. S. Young on the vapour- 

 pressure of a substance in the solid 

 and liquid states at the same tempera- 

 ture, 622 ; on evaporation and disso- 

 ciation, 675. 

 Ravenstein (E. G.) on maps of Central 

 Africa down to the commencement of 

 the seventeenth century, 803 ; object 

 lessons in geography, 800. 

 Rawson (Sir R.) on the expenses of com- 

 pleting the preparation of the final re- 

 port of the Anthropometric Committee, 

 279. 

 Ray (Lieut. P. H.), arctic experiences at 

 Point Barrow, 808 ; habits and customs 

 of the Inn of the western shore and 

 Point Barrow, 919. 

 Raygill fissure, the, in Lothersdale, York- 

 shire, report on the exploration of, 240. 

 Rayleigh (Prof. Lord) on standards for 

 use in electrical measurements, 29 ; 

 on the present state of our knowledge 

 of spectrum analysis, 295; a lecture 

 experiment on induction, 632 ; on tele- 

 phoning through a cable, ib. ; on a 

 galvanometer with twenty wires, 633 ; 

 *on the colours of thin plates, 651 ; 

 on Clark's standard cells, ib. 

 Recruiting, a scale of physical propor- 

 tions for, by C. Roberts, 282. 

 Red River Valley, Manitoba, gleanings 



